Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]

I remember being in school and being taught not to trust computers, that they can get things wrong and are only as good as the person who programmed them. It really does seem like Millenials were the only group to ever get that message hammered into them (And a lot of us didn’t listen anyway).

I haven’t played it or really heard of it, but it’s probably awful? That’s what you wanted to hear right?

I love the banner, it looks like they didn’t really plan it out and realised halfway that they didn’t have enough space.

They shock me when I see a friend playing them at their place. It’s always the same flashy bloom “realistic” graphics that look identical to any other game on the market, with token RPG elements shoved in and nothing that gives it a unique sense of style or flow. They just always look so boring to me. Like Assasin’s creed 69 looks functionally the same as red dead rootin’ tootin’ just that one is about cowboys, one is about like, ancient greece or something.

Hearing that information literally caused me psychic damage.

butt why?

Because a lot of people are sold the idea that the bullshit machine isn’t a bullshit machine, it’s a magic “do everything” machine. They hear the buzzwords and never look further and just assume it must be great because so many people are talking about it. Or they hear speculation about what it “could” do and mistake that for an actual claim about what it currently does, like any good grift product or pyramid scheme.

Usually conspicuously hidden hands indicate the opposite, the AI will have badly drawn hands front and center.

Sorry to have to tell you this, but Portugal was created by AI.

It’s not that it isn’t automatically an indicator of AI generation, rather — it is used frequently by AI in a way that doesn’t follow the natural flow of human conversation.

If you’d like to know more, I’m here to help!

Fine, Ape Escape it is. (Joke’s on you, my disc is scratched and doesn’t work anymore!)

Like dil said, but if you’re still not sure, it basically means they have a kink for trans people, and as such, can tend to treat trans people as more of a sexual object for their personal gratification rather than as actual people.

Ah, I see what you’re getting at now. The only problem is you’re looking at this in a vacuum. Musk isn’t the only billionaire attached to the Trump train, a lot of them are. He’s the only one stupid, vain and egotistical enough to openly attach his name to all of the looting and plundering of the economy that they are doing.

And the only reason any of his business ventures were successful was because of massive government subsidies, the sort that would likely go away if he pissed off Trump enough. And while he may have been able to attract competent people to run things before, that was back when he had a PR team that made sure to hide what a pathetic sad sack he is. To put it another way; would you work for this pathetic manchild who wants to cosplay being a nazi?

And quite frankly, polls don’t mean shit for the republicans, of course Trump is going to be unpopular, what matters is whether anyone actually stops the Trump administration, and while democrats act like the midterms are some “holy grail” of saving democracy, the fact is, Trump’s cabinet don’t give a shit about decorum and can, will and have ignored due process to get what they want.

And the idea that Elon Musk can just pay a bunch of people to make attack ads against Trump and that will somehow make him lose is absurd. Trump voters aren’t going to be swayed by an article in the New York Times telling them “Trump bad” They already know that Trump is bad. They don’t care. They like that he hurts the people they hate.

I would recommend reading articles, news and discussions outside of your usual area, even (as gross as it is) republican ones. Find out what they’re actually saying. Of course the democrat-centric media is going to hype up Trump’s mistakes, and talk about how “This time he’s finished!” But they’ve been doing that since 2015 and he isn’t “Finished” yet.

Stick around here, listen to some political analysis from people much more eloquent and informed than I am, consider what they’re saying about all of this. To be honest, it kind of sounds like you’re stuck in that weird thing Americans do where they just obsess over the elections and midterms almost as if they are a magic spell to fix everything. But Republicans are still going to fuck everyone over even if they lose the midterms, because the Democrats are spineless and always kowtow to the Republicans. As nice as it would be to just have “Blue team wins” and not have to worry, sadly if the people actually want things to improve, they have to break away entirely from this two party system, even if they’ve been taught their entire lives that it is the “best” system. It really isn’t. All this stuff with Trump isn’t the cause, it’s a symptom of a deeply broken system that needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up by the people.

Someone who lacks the skills to draw it themselves. Which ok, fine, they had an idea they wanted to express and used an AI to express it. But there’s so much terrible fluff in this picture that you wouldn’t see in a human made piece. What does that weird line(road?) in the middle mean? Why are they in the desert? Why are the people in Auschwitz not behind bars but the people in El Salvador are? These are all things that could be considered and examined if a human made this, but because an AI made it, it is only ever going to be seen in a “the curtains are just blue” kind of way. No metaphor, not layers of ideas, just one, single idea “The US has made a concentration camp for the first time.” Which is an idea so simple that it doesn’t need artwork to describe it. I just described the central premise in a fairly short sentence.

I’ll have to stop there or else I’ll just rant even more.

Yah, honestly, what is it with these new accounts and acting like they fully understand the site culture and act like they’re already fully ingratiated within the community?

But this way it will expose their hypocrisy! That’ll get them for sure, right?

I agree fully with this:

Where as Trump seems to only be able to find the most incompetent to work for him.

I just think it includes Musk. He’s an absolute dipshit, he isn’t some mastermind pulling the strings. If Trump pisses off Musk enough he’ll rant about it on twitter. I just don’t see him as capable of organising a proper “revenge plan” that isn’t just two pathetic manchildren complaining about each other.

Musk can find legitimate political scientists and fund them to swing a lot of elections.

And I have no idea what this means. If he’s bribing political scientists to say what he wants, I wouldn’t exactly call them legitimate. And since when do political scientists swing elections? If you’ve ever met someone with a political science degree you’d know they’re some of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. They just say who they want to win and then make up bullshit to justify their opinion. There’s no “science” involved at any point.

Overall I just don’t think you’re really reinforcing your point here. Trump won just fine without Musk before, so why is Musk suddenly vital? I think he is useful to Trump, sure, but he isn’t this cornerstone piece of the Trump administration that Trump is too scared of to ever say anything about. Honestly I think Trump is too dumb and egotistical to ever have anyone like that.

Why all the sectarianism and infighting then? Stop beating yourself up so much.

I think you might have your dates mixed up a little bit. Musk attached himself to Trump because he saw that Trump was popular and influential, and wanted some of that for himself. He hitched his wagon to a winning horse so to speak. Trump was already doing well. I wouldn’t describe him as the primary force behind Trump winning at all. Trump largely won due to a flaccid and incompetent campaign by the dems. And Musk could’ve spent billions backing any republican he wanted, but that wouldn’t mean that they would win. When it came to internal polls of the republican party, Trump wasn’t just ahead, he always had a supermajority, and this was before Elon got involved as well.